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Do Earnings by College Major Affect Graduate Migration?
Winters, John V. - 2015
College graduates are considerably more mobile than non-graduates, and previous literature suggests that the difference … is at least partially attributable to college graduates being more responsive to employment opportunities in other areas … paper uses microdata from the American Community Survey to examine how the migration decisions of young college graduates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011149
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Climate Change, Inequality, and Human Migration
Burzyński, Michał - 2019
This paper investigates the long-term implications of climate change on local, interregional, and international migration of workers. For nearly all of the world's countries, our micro-founded model jointly endogenizes the effects of changing temperature and sea level on income distribution and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862463
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Selective Migration and Economic Development : A Generalized Approach
Cha’Ngom, Narcisse; Deuster, Christoph; Docquier, … - 2023
International migration is a selective process that induces ambiguous effects on human capital and economic development in countries of origin. We establish the theoretical micro-foundations of the relationship between selective emigration and human capital accumulation in a multi-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014350135
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Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Abilities of Immigrants : New Perspectives on Migrant Quality from a Selective Immigration Country
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam - 2019
Economic theory suggests that selective immigration policies based on observable characteristics will affect unobservable migrant quality. Little empirical evidence exists on this hypothesis. We quantify traditionally unobservable components of migrant quality in Australia, a high-migrant share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860506
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Motherhood, Migration, and Self-Employment of College Graduates
Cai, Zhengyu - 2019
true for college graduates, who tend to have more successful businesses. Access to childcare may also affect their labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870357
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The Effects of Aging on Migration in a Transition Economy : The Case of China
Bodvarsson, Orn B. - 2010
China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily rural-to-urban, on a scale that dwarfs all other countries at any time in history; and (ii) a shift in its age distribution. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139933
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Southwest as the New Internal Migration Destination in Turkey
Akarca, Ali - 2012
Antalya and Muğla provinces located in southwestern Turkey have emerged as the new magnets for internal migration in the country. Characteristics of immigration from other provinces to these two are described, and analyzed in the context of the gravity model. The factors that affect the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104939
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Welfare Migration
Giulietti, Corrado - 2012
This chapter reviews and discusses major theories and empirical studies about the welfare magnet hypothesis, i.e. whether immigrants are more likely to move to countries with generous welfare systems. Although economic theory predicts that welfare generosity affects the number, composition and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107719
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Age at Migration, Language and Fertility Patterns Among Migrants to Canada
Adserà, Alícia - 2013
through which age at immigration affects fertility. College graduates arriving to Canada anytime before adulthood behave as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093766
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A Gravity Model of Migration between Enc and EU
Ramos, Raul - 2013
Due to ageing population and low birth rates, the European Union (EU) will need to import foreign labour in the next decades. In this context, the EU neighbouring countries (ENC) are the main countries of origin and transit of legal and illegal migration towards Europe. Their economic, cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073508